Lexicography

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  • noun. The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.
  • noun. The act or process of making a dictionary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
  • noun. The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
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  • noun. the act of writing dictionaries
  • Word Usage
    "The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:"
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